The placement and quality of lighting in the workplace can have a significant influence on workers. In addition to aesthetic advantages, lighting can impact health and wellbeing, having an effect on mood, productivity, performance and safety. Here are some tips on workplace lighting, with help from our friends at LZF. Individual lights on and above workstations provide employees with more...
LZF launched a competition in 2012 to create a cordless and rechargeable lamp while making use of the design studio’s signature wood veneers. The Piknik lamp won the competition and has since become a multi-award winning product. Eager to engage with Spanish designers and explore new creative visions, LZF established the competition in collaboration with Surtido, a platform for young...
Blurring the lines of sculpture and utility, LZF’s lighting forms are imaginative and rhythmic. Meet co-founder and creative director of LZF, Mariví Calvo, who has made a career combining artistic and avant-garde methods. Spanish-born Calvo has an eclectic, creative background as an artist. In the early 1990s, while living in Paris, she wrote and developed a surrealist dance performance called...
Yonoh Studio is a multidisciplinary design practice in Valencia, Spain, that’s producing simple, original and functional designs for LZF, Sancal and other European brands. And while there is no excess or extravagance to their creations, there is still a playfulness or whimsy to many. Clara del Portillo and Alex Selma founded Yonoh Studio in 2006. Having trained as industrial designers...
The design world descended on New York in May for the city’s annual design festival, NYCxDesign. More than 500-design related events took place, culminating in the prestigious International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), which is now in its 29th year. Held at the Javitz Convention Center from May 21 to 24, the ICFF hosted more than 750 exhibitors with a selection...
LZF’s flame is certainly glowing ever brighter. Exhibiting at Euroluce 2017, which runs concurrently with Salone del Mobile Milan, the Spanish lighting brand has debuted a number of new collections alongside its classic models. The Banga pendant is one of LZF’s latest additions. Created by Yonoh Design Studio, the Banga pendant is a colourful wood-veneer lamp with the form of...
Mark your calendars because Salone Internazionale del Mobile is just a few days away. From 4–9 April, many of the world’s best furniture and lighting brands and designers will be gathering in Milan to show off their newest products and collections. With all eyes on Milan, here are our top 12 exhibits, events and installations to put in the diary...
LZF, one of our favourite lighting brands, has been part of a host of projects around Europe and America recently that show off the diversity and adaptability of its sculptural and ambient collection. Here, we shine the spotlight on just a few of the best. Galleria Morena, Poland Designer: Design Plus Products:Mini Mikado S by Miguel Herranz Galleria Morena has...
LZF is well versed in the power and potential of good communication design. With a profusion of well-designed wood veneer lights, LZF co-founder Marivi Calvo enjoys the rather enviable task of choosing which lamps will feature in any upcoming photo shoot. Marivi selects the lights she knows will work best in a particular environment and has mastered the art of...
Imagine the varied lamps at LZF as a colourful and eclectic cast, where every light, dependent on the storyline, can play the lead role. Whenever a part calls for the strong silent type, a handsome hero that possesses firmness of purpose, it is LZF’s Domo lamp that fits the bill. Designed by Valencia-based Rqr Studio, Domo is a suspension lamp...